The Mac is doooomed (tell me I'm crazy) - Page 6

**fryke** · #41 January 25th, 2007, 05:03 AM

The idea of Apple ditching the Mac or Mac OS X when it's becoming more and more successful is just that: Really, really stupid, if you think about it.

I hope _this_ helps to put your mind at ease.

Veljo · #42 January 25th, 2007, 07:32 AM

To be honest I think Apple are slowly beginning to lose the plot with their computers. They seem to be focusing a lot on the iPod and other media related things rather than the Mac (as shown at the recent conference). The dropping of 'computer' from their name really worried me.

**fryke** · #43 January 25th, 2007, 08:08 AM

I didn't think so. 2006 started with the MacBook Pro and the intel iMac. Month after month they introduced new intel Macs. Very Mac-centric first half year it was, and the Mac Pro certainly put yet another "Mac" badge on the year. Then came the Core 2 Duo iMac, MacBook Pro and MacBook. So I'd say _apart_ from this year's MWSF keynote, there's not much proof of them "losing the plot with their computers" at all. There have been _much_ longer periods with no big new Mac announcements in the past decade.

Sunnz · #44 January 25th, 2007, 08:51 AM

Vista has already implemented a little bit of 'Time Machine' in their Windows Explorer with word documents, which they call it 'Shadow Copy', is supposedly to be 'better than going back in time', as they said in CES 2007.

Remember how Jobs said there were 10 secret features in Leopard in WWDC2006 that he just want you to know they are there?

They don't want Vista to steal more stuff, and having to introduce iPhone at the same time, it is understandable that they didn't talked about Leopard.

**Captain Code** · #45 January 25th, 2007, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Veljo

To be honest I think Apple are slowly beginning to lose the plot with their computers. They seem to be focusing a lot on the iPod and other media related things rather than the Mac (as shown at the recent conference). The dropping of 'computer' from their name really worried me.

How can you say they're not focusing on their Mac hardware when they just completely replaced every Mac in a year?

Yesurbius · #46 January 25th, 2007, 09:43 AM

I crave new designs. New Blood. new Toys

I can't imagine a different iMac look ...

Deliver Steve! :P

Mikuro · #47 January 25th, 2007, 10:06 AM

Again I'd like to stress the difference between "Macs" (the computers) and "the Mac" (the OS and platform in general). Macs can run Windows. The Mac is the opposite of Windows (more or less). There's a big difference.

**fryke** · #48 January 25th, 2007, 11:03 AM

They didn't say "10" IIRC. They just said that the 10 things they talked about today weren't _all_ the new features.